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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by sampo on Saturday June 15, 2019 @04:54PM (#20192086)
> Deprecated?

Yes. In 1994, you would `latex document` and then `dvips document` to get your document.ps. Then in the 00s almost everyone would use `pdflatex document`. And these days, pdflatex is going out of fashion, but I am unsure what the current to go tool is.

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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by silly_giraffe on Saturday June 15, 2019 @05:37PM (#20192319)
While still an early project, I am keeping my eye on the Tectonic(https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic) project. A re-write of the core Xetex engine in Rust with a focus on many quality of life improvements - useful error messages, UTF8 always, less line noise during build, eliminating the intermediate files, etc.
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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by radarsat1 on Saturday June 15, 2019 @05:02PM (#20192127)
I recommend `latexmk -pdf <mainfile.tex>`

(This just runs latex and bibtex in the right order and the right number of times..)

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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by red_trumpet on Saturday June 15, 2019 @05:18PM (#20192211)
Used in that way, it still uses pdflatex, which sucks if you have Unicode symbols (even Umlauts äöü are complicated...). Though latexmk can easily be configured to use xelatex with the -xelatex flag.
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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by ulucs on Saturday June 15, 2019 @05:24PM (#20192256)
inputenc utf8 and fontenc T1 usually solves all my umlaut (and ğ) related problems
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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by cperciva on Saturday June 15, 2019 @05:07PM (#20192154)
the right number of times

Unless the authors managed to solve the halting problem, I guarantee that latexmk doesn't always run them the right number of times. ;-)

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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by rocqua on Saturday June 15, 2019 @08:07PM (#20192989)
It runs until you produce the same output twice in a row, or you exceed a maximum number of runs. This defaults to 5, but is user select able.

You can disable the maximum number of runs, in which case it really does run the right number of times.

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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by garmaine on Sunday June 16, 2019 @12:14AM (#20193812)
The snark was that you can create an infinite chain of varying output.
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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by red_trumpet on Saturday June 15, 2019 @05:15PM (#20192189)
I think the favorites are xelatex and lualatex. I normally use xelatex, because it handles Unicode well and can use otf or ttf fonts. Not sure about lualatex, but I heard it's nice to have Lua as a Scripting Backend.
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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by piadodjanho on Saturday June 15, 2019 @07:16PM (#20192794)
XeLaTex uses the same text shaping engine Firefox uses, that's why it looks so much better than the default latex.
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Re:Word processors are ditching equation editors in favour o... by ufo on Saturday June 15, 2019 @07:09PM (#20192756)
Lualatex also has good unicode and support through fontspec.
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